

For example, my monitor is 20" and the resolution is 1600x1200, so I would type '-width 1600 -height 1200'. Type in '-width (whatever your monitor's width is, in pixels) -height (your monitor's height)'. To create a commandline to change the resolution, create a new notepad file. how do u work this whole commandline thing that everyone keeps talking about? wat do you mean by "create a commandline text?" cuz i did that and nothing. Im a noob wen it comes to this stuff so can you please explain step by step how to up the resolution and/or texture quality. Play around with the settings until you reach a compromise between nice quality, and good framerate. If you've got a shitty card then there's really no point turning everything up high, it'll be way too laggy to play.

NOTE: Remember to be sensible with the settings. However, the player models looked amazing! Upon leaving the safehouse I was greeted by the following: There's simply not enough memory available to load up all the textures. Like I showed in the above screenshot? Well, this is what happened to me. What happens if I'm a dumbass and turn up all the settings too high? To prove it works, here's what I ended up with.

Add the command: -norestrictions -nomemrestrict.In steam, right click the game right click the game in Steam and go to Properties > Launch Options.Double click the shortcut to launch the game.That includes the quote marks and the options coming after the link to the path "C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -norestrictions -nomemrestrict You should see a field called "Target", edit this to say the following, making sure the path is correct, I'm just using the default here: Make sure the Shortcut tab is selected.Right click the shortcut and click Properties.Create a shortcut on your desktop to the LaunchGTAIV.exe - by default this will be in C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV.

Here's what to do to get around those limits: But because the game only recognises 320MB of that video RAM, I'm severely limited. So, naturally I want to play on as higher settings as possible for my computer. I'm not sure how much it is possible to use, but DxDiag reports me as having 2GB of graphics memory, pretty awesome, that means it's taken 1.7GB from my system RAM, meaning I've got 2.3GB left, plenty to play GTA IV. This card can also make used of shared RAM (memory taken from your system's RAM, of which I currently have a total of 4GB). Now this may sound like a good idea, however it only takes into account dedicated video RAM the graphics card has.įor example, at the time of writing I have a nVidia GeForce 8800GTS with 320MB of RAM. Thought I'd make a pinned topic about this because the way Rockstar stops people from frying their GPU's is by limiting the graphics settings based on your graphics card's memory.
